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| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, with confiscated whiffle board and roulette wheel. |
| Date: | 12 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case. |
| Date: | 12 30 1930 |
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| Description: | Myron Stephanson, accused burglar, holding his head in his hands while sitting under a notice titled: "Wanted for Bank Robbery" at the police station. |
| Date: | 02 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Demetral, Madison wrestler, teaching Officer Robert O'Brien to do an "airplane spin" toss on Officer Keith Ackley. Fifty-five Madison Police Departme... |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Edward Marr, bank messenger for Montgomery Ward and Co., and victim of Madison's second daylight holdup in a month, is searching through the bandit picture... |
| Date: | 12 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles H. Cashin (right) of Stevens Point being sworn in by Clerk of Court Herbert C. Hale as the U.S. Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. |
| Date: | 02 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Angelo Mazzara, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, formerly of Madison. He has confessed to breaking into the Old Heidelberg Tavern, 1206 Regent Street, through ... |
| Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Public officials inspecting the damage and debris from a fatal fire in the Dane County Jail. The fire was started by two inmates, one of whom died in the e... |
| Date: | 06 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Police Chief Bruce Weatherly meeting with members of the National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs who were touring government offices while in Madis... |
| Date: | 03 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Thomas Fairchild, right, former Wisconsin Attorney General, is sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. D.M. Alsad, Clerk of ... |
| Date: | 04 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Two uniformed police officers are inspecting a new 14-foot boat with a 15-horsepower outboard motor resting on a boat trailer inside the police garage. In ... |
| Date: | 12 08 1958 |
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| Description: | The newly-formed Madison Business Protective Association, some in uniform and some plainclothed, will move about through commercial areas to check on poten... |
| Date: | 04 23 1986 |
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| Description: | This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A paste-up of a wanted poster created to identify Frank Lambert and his aliases and crimes. A series of 14 poses of Lambert dressed in a suit and hat, smok... |
| Date: | 02 24 1960 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Madison area law enforcement officers who attended an FBI conference on auto theft investigations. Seated, left to right: Circuit and Juv... |
| Date: | 02 29 1960 |
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| Description: | Detectives identifying stacks of stolen merchandise confiscated from a home on Ohio Avenue. Left to right: William Taylor, Frank Freney, and Capt. Thomas N... |
| Date: | 08 31 1961 |
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| Description: | Henry Harris, 66, of 824 Mound Street, shot his wife, Alice Harris, in the ankle and his stepson, Oliver Davis, in the thigh after a family squabble. Henry... |
| Date: | 12 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Vernon Leslie, left, presenting an award to Richard Green, 1143 E. Dayton Street, for his part in the capture of Raymond Wyngaard, one of the FBI's... |
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